On this page you'll find the book reviews posted on the website, listed chronologically, from most recent to the oldest.

A review of Jeffrey Fracher's book, The Secular Path to Well-being (Tom Cummings, April 21, 2026)

Tricycle Founder’s New Memoir Spotlights Her Personal Struggle to Grow in the Dharma as She Helped Grow American Buddhism  (Ira Rifkin, August 12, 2024)

A review of David McMahan’s new book, ‘Rethinking Meditation’ (Mike Slott, September 23, 2023)

Rethinking not-self: a critical review of Jay Garfield’s ‘Losing Ourselves’ (Mike Slott, April 6, 2023)

A review of ‘Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition’ (Rhonda Magee, July 1, 2022)

A missed opportunity: a review of ‘Secularizing Buddhism’ (Mike Slott, August 15, 2021)

A review of ‘Reimagining Zen in a Secular age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West’ (James M. Shields, June 29, 2021)

A review of Winton Higgins’s ‘Revamp: writings on secular Buddhism’ (Alex Carr, May 18, 2021)

A review of Lenorë Lambert’s The Buddha for modern minds: a non-religious guide to the Buddha and his teachings (Winton Higgins, April 19, 2021)

What Bhikkhu Analayo got wrong: a review of ‘Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions’ (Mike Slott, March 13, 2021)

Owen Flanagan on the core elements of a naturalistic Buddhism (Mike Slott, October 2, 2020)

Why Buddhism is NOT a science of the mind: a review of Evan Thompson’s ‘Why I am not a Buddhist’ (Bernat Font, June 10, 2020)

A review of Evan Thompson’s ‘Why I am not a Buddhist’ (Mike Slott, March 17, 2020)

Review of Rhonda V. Magee’s ‘The Inner Work of Racial Justice’ (Mike Slott, January

Winton Higgins on Ron Purser’s ‘McMindfulness’ (Winton Higgins, October 7, 2019)

A review of ‘After Buddhism’ – focussing dharma for years to come (Winton Higgins, June 9, 2018)

Taking a second look at ‘Radical Dharma’ through the lens of social class (Mike Slott, May 9, 2017)

A Review of Rick Heller’s ‘Secular Meditation’ (Sylvie Venassie, April 1, 2016)

A review of Sam Harris’ ‘Waking Up – the illusory nature of the self’ (Mark Knickelbine, November 12, 2014)